Volume in Seiberg-Witten theory and the existence of two Reeb orbits

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Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner

University of California, Berkeley; Member, School of Mathematics

November 1, 2013

I will discuss recent joint work with Vinicius Gripp and Michael Hutchings relating the volume of any contact three-manifold to the length of certain finite sets of Reeb orbits. I will also explain why this result implies that any closed contact three-manifold has at least two embedded Reeb orbits.